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"Yiddei Hashachachata" is a poem written by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi in the year 5761 (1161)
It's a custom to sing it on the seventh day of Pesach - the day when the Red Sea split and the people of Israel sang the Song of the Sea (which was then the first song of redemption). As well as on Friday night (according to customs of the Eastern communities) and even at weddings.
It is customary to perform the poetry of the piyyut so that the poet sings and the audience, on the other hand, answers him; A style known as the Responatorium that has been accepted since antiquity in the Mediterranean basin, and among Jews in particular. The adoption of this style expresses, as it were, the whole of Israel answering the poet with great force, and the litany asks again and reminds me, "You have forgotten!"
It's a custom to sing it on the seventh day of Pesach - the day when the Red Sea split and the people of Israel sang the Song of the Sea (which was then the first song of redemption). As well as on Friday night (according to customs of the Eastern communities) and even at weddings.
It is customary to perform the poetry of the piyyut so that the poet sings and the audience, on the other hand, answers him; A style known as the Responatorium that has been accepted since antiquity in the Mediterranean basin, and among Jews in particular. The adoption of this style expresses, as it were, the whole of Israel answering the poet with great force, and the litany asks again and reminds me, "You have forgotten!"
